I disagree that this is simply "political."
It is very much a culture of ownership -- and a corporate one at that --
being instituted earlier to American kids.
If you remember, it was exactly this problem that inspired Lawrence Lessig
to start Creative Commons in the first place. He observed that there was a
critical inflection point -- when kids are first taught to share and
cooperate and then are flipped to hoard and restrict.
This amplifies hoarding and restricting at the same time kids are taught to
share. I'm glad I moved out of California before this propaganda was
introduced to my kids.
-Andrew
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What exactly does this have to do with the WMF? Just
because we encourage
open sharing of data doesn't mean we need to comment on every political
debate that shows up on the news.
*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:21 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 24 September 2013 17:42, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/mpaa-school-propaganda/
“This thinly disguised corporate propaganda is inaccurate and
inappropriate,” says Mitch Stoltz, an intellectual property attorney
with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who reviewed the material at
WIRED’s request.
“It suggests, falsely, that ideas are property and that building on
others’ ideas always requires permission,” Stoltz says. “The
overriding message of this curriculum is that students’ time should be
consumed not in creating but in worrying about their impact on
corporate profits.”
I suggest we see if WMF commenting, possibly in a blog post or
similar, would help avert such anti-sharing foolishness.
- d.
Might not be a great idea
Its an improvement on previous attempts (to start with It doesn't appear
to
violate the GFDL) and we would actually benefit
from our uploaders
having a
working knowledge of copyright. Knowing all the
exceptions is something
best left to more experienced users.
--
geni
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